FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi powered himself and his party to a historic win, marking a return to a single-party majority after 25 years of coalition governments. His feat was a result not just of his stirring oratory but also because he held out hope at a time the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was embroiled in corruption scandals and afflicted by a paralysis of governance. On May 13, 2013, we put Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on our cover with the title ‘Dr Dolittle’. In our November 23, 1998 cover story, ‘Unfit to Govern’, we outlined how Atal Bihari Vajpayee had presided over political drift, economic stagnation and administrative paralysis for seven months. Vajpayee, we had said then, was on the verge of joining PMs like Rajiv Gandhi, V.P. Singh and P.V. Narasimha Rao, who inspired hope only to dash it.
Prime Minister Modi and his party were re-elected in May 2019 because people still believed he was a man of action and would deliver good governance as he had repeatedly promised. It is cruelly
